The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-05
CITY NOTES.

Yesterday was a very quiet day for q
Saturday. The last day of the week is
usually very lively.
Mr. C. F. Waldron, of WeIaka, was in
town yesterday, and was among the
pleasant callers at this office. He reports
his section quiet and busy.
The musical and dramatic entertain
ment on the boards for next Tuesday
night should not be forgotten. 1t will be
an entertainment well worth seeing.
All the members of the Board of Trade
should be in their places promptly to-
morrow evening. The regular monthly
meeting promises to be very interesting,
and all should be present to have a hand
in it.
Mr.. jacobson will make an all the
week special sale of dry goods this week,
and will have bargains each day for all
who call. Read his new and large adj
vertisement elsewhere, and see what he
has to say.
AS will be seen from a notice published
elsewhere by DIR. Strausz, the hogs must
go. All parties failing to move these
stock will have the officers of the city
after them i'm a hurry, and the hogs will
be impounded and sold.
James Brown, the city scavenger, was
kept pretty busy all day yesterday haul
ing off the trash that had been raked up
ON the streets. An additional cart was
put to work, but both could not remove
all the stuff that had been put in piles.
DIR. Chas. Walters and Chas. Herrea.
his side partner, at Loeb's saloon, are
making an enviable reputation as mix
ers of delightful summer drinks. and
their skill in mixing prescriptions at
tracts a large number of customers.
They are clever boys. and give polite at
tention to all their friends.
Palatka, so say the physicians and
druggists, was never more healthy ut
this season of the year than at present.
A popular druggist informed us, yester-
day, that he was filling fewer prescrip-
tions now than at any time in the past
few months. This pleasant state of af-
fairs can be attributed to- the fact that
sanitary affairs have received so much
attention of late.
Messrs. j. F. Speck & Son have num-
Der of Chase's patent night clocks on
hand. which are the neatest things of
the kind that we remember to have seen.
The clocks are So arranged that they can
no attached IN, a or ieb
illumines the face so that the time of
night can always be ascertained at a
glance. 1t is the very thing for a sick
room, where a patient objects to a bright
light.
Palatka has never had case of yellow
fever, and as the disease is now con-
fined to the island of Key West, fully
five hundred miles away, we see no need
for any uneasiness. A strict quarantine
and a clean, healthy city certainly does
not invite the disease. The Health Off
GERS promise us that Key West refugees
shall not be admitted into our city, and
quarantine posts will be established along
the lines of the railroads to-day.
Messrs. E. C. & C. S. Tiffany, the no
ted San Mateo gardeners, yesterday sent
to THE PALATKA NEWS office bunch of
their intermediate horticultural bush va
riety of green SHIELDED beans. The bunch
was some twofeet in height, covered with
pods averaging five inches in length,
which Were literally filled with beans.
This bean is said to be very fine, indeed,
i'll l..
claim. As vegetable growers, Messrs.
Tiffany are certainly proving a success.
Mr.. Perry Holland. travelling agent OF
the Dietary and Peoples Line of steam
ers, was in town yesterday. having just
returned from trip To Tampa He says
that Tampa is IN as good health as usual
and that the stringent quarantine and
sanitary N easures already taken there
will prevent the introduction of yellow
fever into that port from Key West. He
says the people there are not at all APP
prehensive ON account of the Key West
fever.
BY order of the Chief of the Palatka
Fire Department. Geo. j. Hehnbar, Put
nam Alert Hose Company, on Friday
night, made a test of the pressure of the
fire plugs. The hose was attached to
the plug on the corner of
Lemon and Second streets. and run
eight hundred feet down Second street.
When the water was turned on, it was
thrown sixty-five feet through a one
inch nozzle, and showed a good pressure.
Through two hundred feet of hose a
splendid stream was thrown over the
Court House, showing that there was
plenty Of water pressure to send it to the
topof our highest buildings.